Yakurr Local Government Area (LGA) in Cross River State has attained the Open Defecation Free (ODF) status under a programme run by the Federal Government, European Union and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
It came as the Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu, raised the alarm that about 47 million Nigerians still practise open defecation.The Minister, who said this on Friday in Ugep, Yakurr LGA, regretted the high rate of open defecation in the country. "(Nigeria is) the highest in sub-Saharan Africa with a national sanitation access of 33 per cent. We understand that we need to do much more, if we are to eliminate open defecation and achieve 100 per cent access to sanitation and hygiene in the country," he said.
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